Improvement in inkstands



tacna sans FRANKLIN T. enIMEs, non LIBEnTY, MISSOURI.

Letters Patent No. 104,300, dated June 14, 1870. A i

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lMPROVEMENT- IN IN KSTANDS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN T. Gaines, of Liberty, in the count-y of Clay and State of Missouri, have invented a. new and improved Mncilage or Inkstand; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,vref erencebeing had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, in which- Figures 1 and 4 are sectional elevations;

Figures, 2 and 5 are horizontal sections;. and Figure 3 is a plan view.

This invention consists essentially in the combina.-

jtion with the reservoir of an inkstand, of vertical and radial partitions placed transversely of the reservoir,

l, a diaphragm forming the bottom of the reservoir, all of which parts being constructed and varranged in a well-known manner, need no particular description.

The radial partitions are shown at e. This inkstand, being one of those in which atmospheric pressure in the funnel c prevents the ink from rising therein, except to a very little above thelowerend of the funnel, it' by any accident the ink should escape out of one ot' the compartments and rise to the same height in the funnel, the partit-ions prevent all the ink from doing the same thing.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv Y Aninkstand consisting essentially of the reservoir a and partitions e, the lat-ter being so arranged as to dividethe former into separate compartments, substantially as and for the purpose described.

Toy the above specication of my invention I have set my hand, this 5th day of May, 1870.

JFRANKLIN T. GRIMES..

.Witnesses SOLOS C. KEMox, CHAs. A. Pn'rrrr. 

